Reset Windows 8 Password without Using Any Third Party Software: How To

Windows 8 has been around from quit a long time; there has been a good user response for Windows 8. Being a multi-user operating system, Windows 8 provides endless feature that one can enjoy by adding multiple user accounts to a single Windows 8 PC, the superb and responsive user interface (UI) helps us to fulfill this need.

In this new OS, user can share their PC with multiple users by keeping the settings intact. By default, administrator and guest account is already present in Windows 8, if in case user forgot the login password then it becomes quite difficult to retrieve the forgotten password. The only way around is by using a third party software or by performing a clean installation.

Well, both third party software and clean installation takes user through rigorous steps to recover password. In this article we will guide you how to recover password with the help of system recovery disc/flash drive.

Disclaimer: Encrypted data stored in current user profile will be lost permanently unless you have saved a copy of encryption certificates.

To change forgotten password in Windows 8 using recovery disc is also not an easy task. User need to follow this guide carefully to successfully retrieve the blocked accounts. So, let’s begin with creating system recovery disc/flash drive.

Requirements:

PC running on Windows 8 to make System Recovery Disk

CD Burner + Blank CD/DVD

If using tablet or netbook, then use flash drive to make System Recovery USB drive (min. USB flash drive size 512MB)

Once booted to the login screen, select “Ease of Access” button which is on bottom left corner of the screen. This will open command prompt, in the command prompt window type “net user” to know the exact names of all the user accounts.

After careful examine of the user account, enter your username followed by * in the cmd windows as shown below.

net user abhi *

Now, it will ask you to enter new password for the account, enter new password and retype it to verify. Well, while typing password you will notice cursor is not moving ahead never mind it is doing its job.

After creating new password, type “EXIT” on the cmd window to close. And try login to the computer with the new password.

Waaait still some steps are left! We need to revert those changes that we made to change password. To revert changes just insert the recovery disk, reboot the computer and navigate to Troubleshoot -> advanced options-> Command Prompt

In the command prompt window

C:

cd windows

cd system32

copy cmd.exe cmd.exe.original

copy Ultiman.exe Ultiman.exe original

del Ultiman.exe

ren cmd.exe Ultiman.exe

shutdown –r –t 00

C: is the drive letter on which Windows is installed.

Above command will restore the files to the way it was initially. Restart the computer to make changes to work.

All done! You have successfully reset Windows 8 password.

When it comes to the safety of your computer files, it is important that you use a cloud-based backup solution. You can start of by using the latest Carbonite offer code in order to save money and start protecting your computer files with Carbonite. This online backup software is Windows based and works well with Windows 8.
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Reset Windows 8 Password without Using Any Third Party Software: How To